Kepler is a live visualization of New York Times taxonomy
installed on the lab’s five-screen display. Every day,
hundreds of articles are published, each with a set of hand-curated New York
Times
tags.
While tags are added as new events occur, the Times has been building on the
same set of tags for the past century. Kepler aggregates these tags over a
rolling 24-hour period for articles published during that time and presents
these taxonomic relations as a force-directed graph. The constantly evolving set
of relationships provides a novel view into the relationships of subject matter
covered by different articles. Kepler was written in Javascript and built with
Plask.